To mark almost any special occasion, a cake topped with a heartfelt message is often the go-to way to celebrate - but these baked goods did not go quite as planned. An online gallery compiled by Diply reveals some of the most hilarious cake decorating failures people have experienced when simply trying to do a nice thing. One unfortunate customer thought they had ordered a plain sheet cake with some chocolate decoration but, to their surprise, when it arrived the baker appeared to have misunderstood the instructions and written 'nothing' on the top. Other bakers struggled to recreate some popular children's cartoon characters, including Disney's Ariel from The Little Mermaid and Elmo from Sesame Street, who looked almost unrecognisable. Expectation vs. reality: One baker struggled to recreate a baking masterpiece of Elmo but struggled to do so and the much-loved children's character from Sesame Street became almost unrecognisable apart from his distinctive colour and big orange noseGeorge Duran from New York was left severely disappointed when the cake he had ordered with no message and some chocolate decoration finally arrived and the decorator had written his decoration request on the topIn a bid to do something nice for their niece's third birthday, this person attempted to recreate a cake design of Ariel from Disney's The Little Mermaid that they had seen online but the end result was far from what they had anticipated and joked that they 'do not see a future in cake decorating'Nothing says happy graduation day quite like a cake with a cap, the year you graduated and the directions you left for the decorator iced on to the top - and to top it off, with no sprinkles!

Source: Daily Mail October 06, 2020 10:52 UTC